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Grammar Thesaurus. Word Lists. Choose your language. Bringing them to that room is Dante Slate Jr. Kevin Hart , son of the Don King-like boxing promoter who handled Razor vs. Kid I and II. Razor agrees only if he can be scheduled at a different time than The Kid. The Kid has other ideas, showing up during Razor's recording session and causing an equipment-destroying fight.
The footage goes viral, and suddenly there's a demand to see these two duke it out in the ring. The two agree to do it, but for different reasons.
Razor needs money so he can pay the retirement home rent of his old trainer "Lightning" Alan Arkin , whom he springs once the fight has been announced.
The Kid's motivation is simple revenge; he wants to pummel Razor to settle the decades old question of who's better. The Kid's heart is in it far more than Razor's, especially after Sally Basinger returns to town to see him. Sally was Razor's true love back in the day. She's also the mother of B. Jon Bernthal , who happens to be The Kid's kid. This melodramatic development feels unnecessary, but it does allow Basinger and Stallone to remind us they can act.
As was the case in the dreadful " Last Vegas ," De Niro spends way too much time in a whiny pity spiral that does him no favors. Casting Kevin Hart was a great marketing idea.
He'll pull in yet another generation of viewers. His verbal sparring matches with Arkin are prominently displayed in the ads, and while they're amusing, there is far less Kevin Hart than you're being led to believe.
Hart brings a smarmy, Daffy Duck-like sense of hapless greed to his role, which nicely complements the curmudgeonly wisecrack-filled persona Arkin can play in his sleep. It's too bad we only get about 15 minutes of him. When the climactic fight arrives, I found myself without a side to choose, because "Grudge Match" is too timid to ask me to commit to either boxer. Director Peter Segal shoots the match well, but even with the late reveal of one fighter's major disadvantage in the ring, I remained apathetic.
Where Both were at one time the Light heavyweight Champion of the world. Kid lets that define him Razor does not. When the first fight between them is hailed as a classic and the second fight breaks records and the fans demanding a third one. Razor walks away from billions back in Kid is a successful businessman owning a bar and a auto dealership and playing off of his boxing image.
Razor is a welder at the dockyards and has been for the last thirty years. Both men are content. When Razor and Kid's history is brought up on a sports show. Needing the money he agrees to do it for 15 thousand. And the idea for the Grudge match is born.
While training for it. Both men encounter secrets from their past. Stallone and Deniro play this one off wonderfully against one another. Stallone is the straight man and gets the best lines. Deniro is the comedic one and gets the best scenes. And Arkin steals the movie from under them. Grudge match is a good time at the movies. It's not what many people think it is.
And because of that it's better then what people think it is. Details Edit. Release date December 25, United States. United States. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Box office Edit. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour 53 minutes. Related news. May 1 Den of Geek.
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